Naruto: Rise of a legend.
Disclaimer : I don't own Naruto, or any other character that might appear in this fanfic, they belong to Kishimoto and whoever made them in the first place. All I own are my own ideas and plot.
Prologue: A boy broken, an emperor emerges.
The Butterfly Effect. In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependency on initial conditions in which a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. Such complicated terms to describe such a simple effect.
To put it in layman's terms, a simple change, no matter where it is, how big it is or how long it lasted, can bring devastating consequences to another place. For example, a hurricane's formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings several weeks earlier.
Big things have small beginnings. Like the forging of one ring, finding a black notebook on the ground, the consumption of a single fruit from a tree…or the end of a life.
What is the value of one life?
A simple question to which there is no right or wrong answer. Some would take that question and approach it from a monetary point of view, some from a cultural point of view but most would take it from a spiritual point of view. But why would spiritual dominate over other choices?
Because the gift of life is something we do not understand. We do not know how it begins nor what happens after it's over, but we do know that all life is precious and to be protected at all costs. But the question remains…how much is one life worth? Are some lives worth more than others? If so, then why would these lives be worth more if they are all the same?
When would we be willing to trade one life in exchange for another? Or many others? The end of a life…how much the end of a life could affect our world? If you asked, anyone with half a brain would reply that it was worthless. A single life, the destruction of a single drop of water in a vast ocean would be meaningless and be discarded as worthless.
But this is where you are all wrong. Not all lives are worth the same and some are more valuable than others. Some, while they may not seem like it, are worth thousands if not millions of others. These lives should be cherished and protected at all costs for no one knows what their end could bring into our world.
And here is where the butterfly effect comes into play. This particular life belongs to a gentle, serene and very kind soul. A strong forgiving heart that housed a soul of steel. A person willing to trade her life for the person she cherished above everything. And it's with this particular life that everything began.
Asama Miya, was a civilian born kunoichi that pursued a carreer as an Inryo ninja.
She wasn't rich, in fact she was in the middle class.
She wasn't some legendary kunoichi, like Tsunade, in fact she was quite average.
She wasn't some otherwordly beauty, in fact, many who saw her consider her average at best.
But she was is the world of one person, one individual in particular, one Uzumaki Naruto, and a few weeks before his birthday five years after being born, she was taken from him.
In many universes, the two never met, in this one in particular they met when he was four. This meeting created many universes with a shinobi particularly talented in the healing arts, in this one in particular her death created a man of unparalleled ruthlessness.
The man Naruto grew to become because of her death wasn't a saint, he was compassionate but ruthless, kind but harsh, he was a man forged from the flames of hatred and loss willing to do anything as long as his goals are met and most importantly he was willing to burn the world to protect those precious to him.
His name was put in history as one of the strongest men to ever live if not the strongest, he was also known as the most influential man of his time but most importantly he was known as the Dai Rokuten Maou (The demon King of the Sixth Heaven).
To know what happened to him we must start at the beginning and what better beginning than the day he was born.
Scene Change: October 10.
Sarutobi Biwako and Namikaze Kushina were making their way out of the village when they ended up running into one of Kushina's lifelong friends, Uchiha Mikoto. As Kushina stopped to say hi, she noticed the baby in the other woman's arms.
"Didn't you have a girl?" Kushina asked with surprise evident in her voice.
Mikoto gave her long time friend a smile, but shook her head. "Nope, another boy."
"Well, what's his name, Mikoto?" Kushina pressed.
"Sasuke," Mikoto answered, there was a proud smile on her face as she looked down at her sleeping son.
The name struck a chord with the elder woman of the trio, and Biwako spoke up, "Ah, the same name as the Sandaime's father."
"Yes…I'm sure he'll become a fine shinobi," Mikoto agreed. Then she looked back up at her red haired friend and grinned as she continued, "You're almost due aren't you Kushina? You should pick out a name before it's too late."
Kushina smile brightly as a hand raised up to her chest's level in a sign of thoughtful excitement, "We've got one – 'Naruto.' He and Sasuke-kun will be in the same grade, I hope they become friends!"
A look of fear and nervousness seemed to clash down around the expecting mother as she leaned forward and whispered with her hands around her mouth, as if asking was taboo, "By the way…does it hurt? Like, bad?"
Mikoto chuckled, "Well, well, even you're afraid of something. I'll be."
By this time, Biwako had had enough and dragged Kushina away by the wrist, "Come on already!"
"Oh, sorry!" Kushina apologized, waving back at the Uchiha Clan's matriarch.
"Ja ne!" Mikoto responded, waving farewell to the red head.
"Remember," Biwako chastised after they were far enough away, "we need to keep your birth classified. Try not to talk to anyone while we're on the move, even your friends."
"Right, sorry about that," Kushina acknowledged with a nervous hand rubbing her head.
"The fact that we're leaving the village is classified as well!" Biwako snapped as she turned to face Kushina. "Don't go screaming your head off, even when the contractions start."
"R-right…"
Scene change:
The ANBU guard standing outside a sealed cave heard, "OH GOD, IT HURRRRRRRRRRRTS!"
"KHRAAAAAAAA!" Kushina continued to scream as she lay on the bed and tried her best to fight through the labor pains.
Minato was looking rather harried as he stared at his wife in blatant worry, "I, uh…I've never heard Kushina in so much pain, are…are you sure she's alright?"
"SHE'S FINE! JUST KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE SEAL!" Biwako snapped at her husband's successor.
"But, she's…"
"Good lord, you're the Yondaime Hokage! Don't panic!" she continued to yell at him. "This is why women have babies; you men can't handle the pain!"
Minato gulped as he felt the seal on his wife's abdomen pulse with energy, signaling that the Kyuubi was trying to break free.
"UAAAAAAAU!" Kushina moaned as another powerful contraction hit her.
'It's so strong!' was the only thought that ran through her husband's mind as he used his chakra to strengthen the seal. 'I can feel the fox trying to break out!'
"Hang in there Kushina! Hang in there Naruto!" he muttered as he continued to fight back the fox.
"MMMMNNNNNNNNN!" Kushina's moan as she felt Naruto trying to exit her womb racked her body and her eyes clenched shut in agony.
"The head's out! Almost there, Kushina!" Biwako cheered as she helped the baby from his mother's birth canal.
Taji, the attending medic also provided encouragement, "Keep going, Kushina-san!"
Then, both Minato and Kushina felt the fox trying to break free once more, but Minato surged his chakra from his hand and into the seal with a cry, "Narutooo, get out here! And Kyuubi, you stay right where you are!"
"MMMNH-" Kushina whined as she gave one final push, her son finally free of his mother's uterus.
Cries from the infant filled the cave turned hospital room and Biwako ordered Taji to get some hot water. He snapped to and rushed to the table where the basin waited.
"…It's okay," Minato muttered in shock while Kushina panted, trying to rest her labored body.
The baby Naruto continued to cry as he was washed clean of his mother's bodily fluids and Biwako announced with joy, "Congratulations, it's a healthy baby boy!"
"Hahaha," Minato wiped his eyes from their tears of joy, "Look at me, I'm a father!"
Biwako handled the blanketed Naruto and carried him up next to his mother's head as he continued to cry. Kushina's own tear laced eyes turned to happiness as she leveled her gaze on her child, "Naruto…haa…I finally get to meet you…"
She would have continued, but Naruto was taken by Biwako to be cared for as Minato spoke, "Okay Kushina! I know you're exhausted from the birth, but we've got to get the Kyuubi completely sealed!"
She huffed, "Right…!"
Just as he was about to stabilize the seal, two unmistakable cries of people dying ripped through their ears.
"BIWAKO-SAMA! TAJI!" Minato roared.
His attention was grabbed by a new person who had somehow bypassed the guards and the barrier, wearing a hooded black cloak and an orange mask with black stripes and a single eye hole where the right eye should be; he was holding the baby in his arm, one arm prepared to strike Naruto, "Yondaime Hokage…Minato. Back away from the Jinchuuriki or your son dies at the ripe age of one minute."
Minato's eyes narrowed as two thoughts ran through his mind, 'How did he break through the barrier. Who the hell is this guy?'
The blonde Hokage was about to move to attempt to rescue his newborn son when Kushina moaned as the Kyuubi began to push for its freedom from the seal on her exposed stomach.
"Kushina!" he cried. 'The seal's not done!'
The masked assailant produced a kunai in his left hand and threatened the Hokage once more, "Back away from the Jinchuuriki…or don't you care if your son dies?"
"Hold it, j-just calm down!" Minato pleaded, raising his hand up in a reaching gesture as Kushina experienced another wave of pain. Then, to Minato's much growing fear, the man threw Naruto into the air.
"You should take your own advice Minato. I'm perfectly calm," the man berated.
"NARUTO!" Kushina cried while her husband's gaze turned absolutely murderous as the wailing newborn and the man drew the kunai down in preparation for an upwards thrust.
The next moment, Minato had Naruto in his arms as he rested his feet against the wall behind his attacker.
"You live up to the 'Kiroii Senkou' moniker, but what now?" the man quipped with a backwards glance.
Minato glanced down, seeing smoke flow up from the bottom of the baby blanket, and he recognized the flow as that of multiple paper bombs. A quick movement of his hands later and Minato separated the child from the impending explosion.
"MINATO! NARUTO!" Kushina cried when she noticed the man in her life and her newborn son disappear.
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The house went up in fire and smoke as it exploded, and Minato, using his body to protect his and his wife's baby was thrown away from the blast.
"Thank Kami…you're not hurt," Minato breathed a sigh of relief as he caught his breath while sitting on the ground, cradling the shrieking infant who obviously did not like all the jostling.
"Ow…" Minato winced as he finally registered the pain of a small piece of wood that had embedded itself in his lower right shin, through his pants and wrappings. He plucked the wood out and his mind was already trying to figure out why they had been attacked.
'He's after Kushina. He forced me to use my Hiraishin no Jutsu to separate us! Gotta hurry!'
He used his Hiraishin once more to get Naruto to another house. He then quickly placed Naruto in the bed sized crib and wrapped a blanket around him.
"You'll be safe here," he mentioned, although he may have been trying to reassure himself. "You'll wait here on your own for a bit Naruto…I've gotta go save your mom before it's too late."
Scene Change:
Kushina was strung up with chains binding her wrists that were tethered to several giant boulders jutting up from a mountain lake; kanji were drawn around four vertical pieces of stone and along the chains, forming a seal, as the seal on Kushina gullet spread so that it began to manifest itself on the lower portion of her face.
In her weakened condition, she was forced to kneel on another stone as the cloaked man stood before her and she pried for information, "What…are you after?"
"I came to rip the Kyuubi from your stomach and use it to crush Konoha," the man answered.
"…What…?"
"Minato's teleportation jutsu use a special marking that lets him instantly move from one marking to the next," the man continued. "I see he's incorporated it into the design of your seal.
The man's head lifted and in the eyelet of his mask, a fully mature, three tomoe Sharingan was revealed, "All so he would always be there to protect you…but I managed to get away from him. And the seal has been greatly weakened from the birth…do you have any idea how long I've waited for this moment?"
Realization began to dawn on the new mother and her eyes locked with the Sharingan as it peered into her, allowing the man to enter the seal's inner construct where the Kyuubi was bound by chains to a large ball with each of its tails staked into it as well, along with its torso and all four paws. It tried to fight off its assailant's genjutsu, but the Sharingan prevailed and its slitted eyes shown with the Sharingan – the indicator that the man's control was a success.
The chains began to melt and the stakes disappeared, allowing the fox's chakra to manifest as a chakra cloak around Kushina, who screamed in agony when the fox began to emerge from the seal.
Her captor brought his right up in a hand seal and uttered his first command to his new beast, "Come forth, Kyuubi no Yoko!"
And with a roar that shook the heavens, the full form of the beast emerged from its host.
Below, the man turned from Kushina who had collapsed now that the chains were no longer holding her up and he commanded once more, "We head for Konohagakure no Sato."
"S…stop…" a severely weakened Kushina squeaked out.
The man did stop and turned back in slow surprise, "…The Uzumaki Clan is really something special. Even wrenching a Bijuu from your body didn't kill you right away."
The fox above growled and the man spoke once more, mentally commanding the monstrous fox to smash the woman, "It's only fitting for the Kyuubi to kill its former Jinchuuriki."
And just like that, the fox smashed its paw down where Kushina was laying, sprawled across the rock, unable to move, and upon contact, the section of ground exploded from the shear amount of power exuded from said Bijuu.
As the dust settled, Minato was crouching on top of a large tree, cradling his wife against himself.
"A small glimmer of hope," their enemy scoffed. "But it's too late."
"Minato…" Kushina huffed and struggled to speak. "Is Naruto…is Naruto okay?"
The Yondaime smiled down at her, "Yes…he's fine. I hid him somewhere safe."
"Oh, thank Kami…" Kushina sighed, happy as any mother would be when knowing that their child was safe from harm. "Minato…stop him…stop the Kyuubi…they're headed for the village…"
An unhappy Minato sighed as Kushina's eyes closed from exhaustion and he vanished with her.
The man who had attacked merely looked on and spoke for no reason than to hear himself speak, "Gone again…no matter…on to Konoha!"
Scene Change:
The couple arrived via the Hiraishin and Kushina asked her spouse, "…Why?"
"Never mind why…stay with Naruto," her husband answered while he placed her beside their baby. Her eyes cracked open slowly and lay on her finally sleeping son.
"…Naruto…" she cried as she wrapped an arm around him as he lay beneath the blanket. She continued to cry as she pulled him close and the side of his head rested against her own. "Minato…thank you…" she managed to get out as the man clenched his fists and stomped the floor in anger.
"I'll be back before you know it," he proclaimed while slipping his signature Hokage Haori over his Jounin vest.
Scene Change:
A five year old Uchiha Itachi was sitting on the porch that ran along the perimeter of the courtyard that the main family's dining room looked out upon. In his arms was his baby brother, Sasuke, who was sleeping rather peacefully when a something washed over the older son of Mikoto.
"What's…this awful feeling?" he muttered as he looked up into the night sky.
"Nmmmmm," the infant began to squirm before crying out, forcing his older brother to try and rock him back to sleep with reassuring words.
'What an awful feeling?' Itachi thought again. 'Why did Kaa-chan and Tou-san have to go out now?'
He then redirected his attention back to his brother once more, "Don't cry Sasuke; your Nii-san is here to protect you, no matter what happens."
Scene Change:
Many of the village's ninja were beginning to unwind for the day and were saying their farewells to their friends for the night. Two in particular though, had just met up with one another and the vastly more eccentric was demanding a challenge from his 'eternal rival.'
"Why don't we just go with rock-paper-scissors today?" Kakashi asked as he walked down the street with his hands in his pockets.
"NOT AGAIN! I WANT A MORE HOT-BLOODED CONTEST!" Gai protested with a very childlike attitude. "AND YOU CALL YOURSELF MY RIVAL!"
Ignoring him, Kakashi examined his left hand as it gained a nervous tremor, "…Hey Gai…Do you sense something…off? Like there's an awful chill in the air…"
"WHY DO YOU HAVE TO ACT LIKE THIS? WE'LL ONLY BE YOUNG ONCE!" Gai continued with his rants on the youthfulness of... youth.
Scene Change:
Minato's predecessor was reading from a report while smoking on his pipe when he too felt the same ominous feeling that Kakashi and Itachi were both experiencing. He looked out his window while exhaling a stream of smoke.
'It couldn't be,' he thought. Unfortunately, it was, because a moment later, the same man who had attacked the Yondaime and his family, and unleashed the Kyuubi, materialized just inside the village's walls and used a summoning jutsu.
"Attack, Kyuubi No Yoko!" the man commanded, and the Kyuubi flared its youki while smashing buildings causing many people to fly away from the sheer power it unleashed.
Some of the villagers however, were not caught in the initial assault and looked up in pure, unadulterated fear.
"Sandaime-sama!" one of the ANBU appeared before Sarutobi, "it's the Kyuubi! The Kyuubi attacked the village out of nowhere!
Sarutobi though, was in motion before the man even arrived, placing his battle worn bracer on his right forearm as he responded, "I know, I'll hold it back; gather and protect the civilians!"
"Hai!" the man acknowledged and disappeared as quickly as he had arrived.
Sarutobi then sighed while thinking, 'Did Kushina's seal fail? Were all the safeguards we put in place, really not enough?'
Scene Change:
In a crouch, the Yondaime Hokage appeared, arriving on top of the most vertical rock that represented his spiky hair. The Kyuubi noticed immediately and turned his attention towards the most dangerous threat to its existence as the man stood up straight, the wind dramatically blowing his hair and haori to his left as it whipped by him.
"So you noticed me already," he commented dryly and watched as the Kyuubi pulled its chakra to its mouth, condensing it into a large and lethal ball of energy.
"Not on my watch!" Minato retaliated as he began to run through some hand seals while the demon launched its attack at him. As it closed in on Minato, it suddenly disappeared and a large seal appeared in the sky in a dome fashion. When the seal faded, Minato was holding both of his hands out before him, fingers spread, the pointer fingers and thumbs touching each other, and held in place by his chakra was one of his Hiraishin tri-pronged kunai.
'Gotta pick a safe place to let that huge blast detonate,' he thought, before picking the exit seal, five miles behind Konoha, away from the village.
Down below, one Akimichi Chouza commented on the spectacle, "It stopped the Kyuubi's attack…that was a Jikukan Kekkei ninjutsu!"
"It's Minato!" Chouza's long time friend, Nara Shikaku, announced – the Jounin Commander rallying the morale of the villagers.
"EVERYONE MOVE OUT!" they then heard the Sandaime command. Shouts of 'Hai' resonated as the Konoha ninja began to counterattack.
Back with Minato though, he was preparing to Shunshin to Hiruzen's side, thinking, 'I have to tell the Sandaime what happened…' when the same man who had attacked him prior, rose up from the top of his face on the mountain.
Forced to deal with the man, Minato whipped around, and attempted to drive one of his signature kunai knives into the man's head. But, much to his shock and dismay, the blade phased through him and as the blade cleared, his opponent reached out and grabbed the Hokage's arm.
"You will face me," the man stated. "…And we're done."
Immediately, the man opened a spiraling vortex that attempted to suck in Minato. But, Minato's Hiraishin was faster, and he escaped the man's trap.
"He teleported…" the man commented in an awed tone. "Talk about fast. Next time, I'll warp you the moment I lay my hand on you."
Scene Change:
Minato appeared, skidding across the ground with a grunt, 'My attack slipped right through him. But a moment later he was solid and tried to…suck me into some dimension or something; what was that move?'
A humming sound alerted Minato to said man's arrival, who spoke as he solidified, "You won't escape me."
As the two opposing super ninja stared each other down, Minato's brain was searching for a solution, 'What is that? Is it a Jikunan Jutsu? Whatever he did, it must be how he moved so far after taking Kushina! He defeated ANBU under the direct command of the Sandaime, got past the most top-secret barrier we have, and must have known the seal would be weak while Kushina was giving birth…Then with the seal undone he took the Kyuubi and marched straight into Konoha without so much as pausing to deal with the barrier…there's only man I can think of that makes sense…'
"Are you Uchiha Madara?" Minato questioned. The man didn't answer, choosing instead to remove the hood from his head, revealing short spiky dark hair. "No…you couldn't be," Minato continued. "He's long dead…"
"Oh…" the man interrupted. "I don't know about that…"
Minato continued as if he did not hear, "…On second thought, it doesn't matter who you are. But why have attacked Konoha?"
"Oh, you know…its part of my plan…to start a war…to bring peace…"
'Whoever he is, he's incredible!' Minato's thoughts began to fire again. 'He can control the Kyuubi, wields time-space jutsu that far exceeds that of Nidaime-Sama, and clearly has evil intentions. If I don't kill him now, he'll become a greater threat than the fox!'
Minato stood, prepared to fight, a plan forming, 'If I teleport back to the village he'll just follow me and things will get even more chaotic. If he really is Madara, then I doubt he can summon the Kyuubi for very long. I'll just have to leave the village in the Sandaime's hands and finish him off right here!'
"There no hope for any of you!" Madara jested as he charged his adversary, a chain, hooked to both wrists, trailing behind himself.
As the drew close, Madara phased through Minato's body, and the chain, upon reaching Minato, wrapped around him once Madara snapped his arms around in an attempt to stop Minato's movements. When Madara tried to rip the chain through the Hokage's torso, Minato activated his Hiraishin and teleported to the special kunai that he had used to arrive earlier, escaping the would-be fatal attack. That attack was enough for Minato to understand Madara's strategy as he glanced over his shoulder, eyeing Madara who returned the stare.
'He makes his body intangible to negate my attacks, then solidifies to counterattack. My only shot is to try and trade hits with him. But attacking at all is a big risk for him. If he can only keep the Kyuubi summoned for a short time, he won't want this fight to drag on.'
They dashed again, but this time, Minato was armed with another of his kunai. During the rush, the blonde had another thought, 'It comes down to speed, whoever strikes a split second earlier will win!'
When they reached five feet from one another, Minato slung his kunai forward, watching as it phased through Madara's head. When the pommel was the last part to pass through him, Madara reached forward to grab a hold of Naruto's father as the man charged a Rasengan up in his right hand.
'Gotch-' Madara thought as his hand connected with Minato's shoulder, briefly, before the man disappeared. "GHAGH-!" He exclaimed when Minato suddenly appeared above him, and pushed the Rasengan into his back, shredding through the cloak and piercing the flesh as it drove Madara into the dirt. 'Damn it…he teleported to the kunai he just threw!'
"That was the Hiraishin no Jutsu, Level Two," Minato boasted as he continued to force his chakra sphere into the rogue Uchiha.
Madara forced himself to use his phasing technique once more to slip away with a pained groan. When he put some distance between him and Minato, he realized that his left arm was dripping copious amounts of blood and was unable to be moved. And before he could anything else, a glaring Minato materialized before him, via Hiraishin, with a kunai in his left hand poised to gut Madara, and his right hand planting itself on Madara's torso.
'The Hiraishin no Jutsu!' Madara mentally screamed. 'He must have put that marking somewhere on my body!'
It was after that thought that Madara realized that Minato was implanting a seal on him and roared, "A contract seal? Are you trying to pull the Kyuubi from my control?"
"No," Minato retorted. "I already did! The Kyuubi is no longer your weapon!"
Scene Change:
At that moment, the severing of the control was completed and the Sharingan disappeared from the Kyuubi's eyes as he roared.
Amongst the rubble below, the child of two of Konoha's Jounin was trying to help his injured mother.
"Iruka…are you hurt?" his mother asked as blood leaked from her mouth.
"Mom…" the young boy started, fear gripping him like a choking hand. "DAD! MOM'S-"
"I'll take care of your mother," the addressed man shouted back to his son. "You get out of here!"
"NO WAY DAD! I CAN'T LEAVE YOU AND MOM ALONE! I'LL PROTECT HER!" Iruka protested, only to be stopped in his tracks by his father's angry yell.
"CUT THE CRAP!" he told Iruka. "Parents are supposed to protect their children!"
At the wall, thanks to Minato's actions, the Sandaime and many of the village's most powerful ninja including Akimichi Torune, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu were able to drive the Bijuu out into the forests that surrounded Konoha, preventing any more casualties.
"DON'T STOP SETTING TRAPS!" one of the Jounin who charged the beast shouted as many ninja continued to leap at it, fully intent on slaying the monstrous creature.
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Madara escaped by teleporting to a mid level branch that looked down on the man who had stopped him and complimented, "You deserve the title of Yondaime Hokage…managing to wound me and wrest the fox from my control in one move. But someday it will be mine. The fox and this whole world, will bow to my will. Many doors are still left open to me." And just like that, Madara used his jutsu once more to disappear.
From his position on the forest floor, Minato glared at where the man had been standing, 'Something tells me he wasn't lying.' Before getting himself ready for an action that would haunt him in his afterlife.
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"Hold on! We've got to hold it off until the Yondaime Hokage gets here!" a Jounin, bleeding from a slight head wound, shouted to his comrades in arms as they charged the viscous beast once more.
Just behind them, a career Chuunin grabbed the young Iruka who tried to follow his dad after his mother was no longer amongst the living, having died to protect her son from falling debris. He protested, proclaiming that his parents were still out there and that he needed to be with them.
"KUCHIYOSE NO JUTSU!" everyone heard. With a large plume of smoke, the large toad, Gamabunta appeared with the Yondaime atop his head, landing directly on the fox's shoulders and subsequently driving the most powerful of the Bijuu into the earth. Unfortunately, the beast was in the middle of charging up one of its devastating chakra sphere blasts.
"HOLD DOWN THE FOX FOR JUST A MINUTE!" Minato yelled out to his long time partner.
"I may be big, but I'm not a miracle worker!" was the protesting reply.
"I need enough chakra to take him and that blast out of here!"
In a last ditch attempt to destroy everything, the fox swiveled its head around and lined its mouth in the direction of a tired and scraped up Sandaime Hokage whose eyes widened in fear as the fox prepared to detonate. He was saved a second later when Gamabunta landed on the ground with a resounding 'thud' as Minato used his Hiraishin to transport the fox and attack away from the village.
"Minato…" Hiruzen tried to figure out what happened, "did he teleport himself and the Kyuubi?"
He was answered immediately when the fox's attack detonated over ten miles away.
"Out there!"
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"Minato, what are you doing?" Kushina screamed as Minato Namikaze grabbed Naruto from her hands.
"The masked man who attacked us will soon be back to attack once again, Kushina. Naruto needs the power of the Kyubi to be able to face him off." Minato stated as he activated his prize jutsu, Hiraishin, teleporting the family of three to someplace else.
In a clearing in the forest near where the Kyubi was rampaging, where there was an altar in place. Minato placed Naruto on it and prepared to used an Uzumaki Juinjutsu (Cursed Seal), the Shikki Fuin (Reaper Death Seal). It was a seal that was in the fuinjutsu notes that the wife of the Shodaime Hokage, Uzumaki Mito had given to Kushina in hopes that the girl would continue the art.
Unfortunately, Kushina was too hot-tempered for the art and prefer the flashy ninjutsu and body moving ken and taijutsu. So, she gave all the notes to her husband, Minato, who appreciated the contribution which allowed him o advanced the Nidaime Hokage's Hiraishin to the point where it became his signature technique along with the rasengan.
Kushina was helpless to stop Minato as she was low on chakra and vitality due to the Kyubi being ripped from her body. As Minato clapped his hands and the Shinigami was summoned, the spectral deity then raised it's hands and the Kyubi separted into two smaller versions. Both versions were then sealed into Kushina and Naruto respectively.
Kushina then felt her chakra reserves powered up big enough to allowed her to heal and move once more. She stared into Minato's eyes as the Shinigami began to siphon Minato's soul out of his body. "I placed the Yang chakra into you to allowed you to heal enough to watch over our son, Kushina. Raised him into a respectable Konoha shinobi, won't you my love." Minato let out his last words before he fell to the ground like a puppet with it's strings cut.
Where Minato's body was standing was a blue humanoid outline before the Shinigami then grabbed it and opened it's mouth and placed the outline in it's mouth and swallowed before disappearing as it's duty was over. Kushina stumbled over to the altar and what she saw shocked her. In the place of Naruto's Uzumaki red hair was a bright yellow hair color,same as his father.
Naruto then opened his eyes to show the same cerulean color as Minato. Kushina's loss of Minato combined with the radical physical change of Naruto led to have an irrational realization.
If she had the Yang chakra in her, then Naruto had the Yin chakra. Yin chakra was said to be made of the soul's spiritual energy, which meant that the Kyubi was the one who changed Naruto's look to mock her, to have the one final laugh. Kushina couldn't take the supposed mocking to the point where she intended to choke the hours-old baby.
As her hands were closed to Naruto's neck, a pair of hands grabbed her by the wrists. Kushina looked to see it was Sarutobi who had stopped her, "What do you think you're doing, Kushina?"
"I'm avenging my husband and child which the fucking beast stole from me. I want my vengeance!" Kushina screamed, insanity reign in her eyes.
"I can't allow that, Kushina. You're still in grief so take a moment to rest before doing something you'll regret." Sarutobi warned.
"You're either with me or against me, you old monkey. Which is it?" Kushina laid down the ultimate ultimatum.
"It's no choice Kushina, I can't allow an innocent child to die for something he carries in him."
"Fine then, I quit being a shinobi." Kushina then turned around and stormed off. As she took a few steps, she turned her head to look back at the Sandaime Hokage, "You don't have to worry about me, I'm going to find Tsunade and join her. I won't go against Konoha since it would destroy Minato's memories."
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And that was the beginning of his life, cursed to a loveless life by his father and abandoned by his mother who spread that he was a jinchuriki just to spite Sarutobi, Naruto's life was a living hell isolated by all, he was kicked out of the orphanage at 4 years old but he was taken in by a kind woman named Asama Miya and for a long year he lived a happy life but like they say nothing good last forever and she was taken from him when he was 5.
Scene Change: October 10th, five years after Kyubi attack.
Naruto was a cheerful little boy, especially since he was adopted by his mother when he was four. The kind old man that is the Hokage allowed them a small house on the outskirts of Konoha because people are always meqn to them for some reason. He really liked the old man, he was only second to his mother so yesterday he told him his dream: to become an inryo (Medic) nin like his beloved Kaa-chan.
Now he was back home, on this day he always made sure not to stay out even though today was the Kyubi festival but he always stayed home since once when he was three, he stayed outside and the people beat him, since then he stayed inside during all festivals in Konoha.
Anyway, he reached qnd opened it, but he soon realised that something was wrong, he smelled a strange smell, like iron and this smell was only there when he was injured, so he thought that his mother got injured so he rushed where he thought he would find his mother, but what he saw made his blood run cold, his mother was on the ground in a pool of her own blood, and above her were two people with one of them holding a tanto dripping with her blood.
The first and the apparent oldest of the two a fair-skinned man who had short, unkempt, dark-coloured hair, black eyes and a relatively broad nose and well-defined eyelashes, that were turns upwards at each end. He wore the standard attire of the Uchiha clan which includes a high-collared, dark-coloured outfit along with a tantō strapped to the right side of the back of his shoulder. He also wore what appeared to be a harness for his tantō which ran across his chest and fastened over both his shoulders.
The second and his mother's killer, was a good looking youth who had onyx eyes under which were long, pronounced tear-troughs. He had jet-black hair that was pulled back in a low ponytail and his face was framed with centre-parted bangs that extended to his chin. wear the standard Anbu uniform complete with arm guards and a flak jacket.
Both of the assassins had one thing in common, their eyes were crimson with three tomoe in them telling Naruto what clan they were from. At first the three occupants of the room looked at each other, one was feeling sorry, the other was apathetic and the last and youngest was broken, before the blue eyes turned crimson and slitted and all hell broke loose.
Naruto's body erupts in crimson chakra and his nails became sharp claws. His transformation complete he jumped at full speed towards the one with the ponytail and attempted to claw his eyes out. Ponytail didn't seem to react to the attack but the one with the curly hair pushed him from his path and took the tackle instead. With strength impossible for one his age, Naruto tackle them both out of the house through a wall and for some reason he used his thumbs to crush the Uchiha's eyes.
"AARGH!" screamed the man in pain before he was put out his misery by Naruto who used his hands to crush the man's skull in an impossible show of force.
Having finished his grim duty, Naruto remembered the second assassin and turned around and saw his mother's killer standing just outside the hole that he made in the wall using his friend, he was about to attack the man with the ponytail but some primal instinct told that doing so was an incredibly bad and stupid idea, instead he opted to listening to him
"I don't know if you can hear me or even understand what I am saying Naruto-san, but I want you to know that I don't blame you for Shisui's death" he took a deep breath before showing his eyes, they were no longer red with three black tomoe in them, but three spiraling curves around the pupil. "his death was my fault for bringing him here, but for taking my friend's life you will die here and now... Amaterasu (Heavenly Illumination)!" and after that all Naruto could see is black and all he could fell was pain.
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This isn't my first kill, mine was when I was seven years old, a month after I became a genin, bandits if I remember correcteur, I can still remember their faces as they died to this day. After that for three years I fought, killed, lied to, and assassinated people for the sake of my village.
What made this kill very unique, was that this was the first time that my victim was an innocent person that didn't even make an attempt at depending herself, all she did was ask for spring her son, her little Naruto as she called him. When I killed her, for the first time I was so shocked that I couldn't react
When the child entered I couldn't react, I couldn't react when he started using the bijuu chakra, I couldn't react when he attacked. And because I couldn't react, Shisui had to save me.
Even when they both left the house through a hole in the wall I couldn't react, the only thing that made react was my friend's, brother actually, death scream and a wet sound so I rushed outside and saw Shisui missing his eyes and his skull crushed by the child in front of me. Shiusi was dead.
It was my fault, for I brought him here.
It was my fault, for I didn't react forcing him to save me.
It was my fault that Shisui was dead.
The child looked at me with his slitted eyes and I found myself looking at him with cold eyes
"I don't know if you can hear me or even understand what I am saying Naruto-san, but I want you to know that I don't blame you for Shisui's death" after that I took a deep breath and continued " his death was my fault for bringing him here, but for taking my friend's life you will die here and now..." and like by magic a new technique appeared in my head as if I always knew it "Amaterasu (Heavenly Illumination)!" and I felt pain like no other from my eye.
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Naruto started trashing in the ground consumed by the black flames around him before a shockwave of chakra erupted from his body and blasted the flames away. Seeing his prey on the ground clutching his eye, Naruto decided to attack him before a voice came from above
"Raiton: Shiden (Lightning Release: Purple Lightning)" a bolt of lightning slamed into Naruto causing him to roar in pain, before he could attack whoever attacked him, the same voice said again
"Raiton: Shichū Shibari (Lightning Release: Four Pillar Bind)" before four rock pillars were summoned around him, which then shoot bolts of lightning between them, electrocuting Naruto and further weakning him. The same blasted voice said
"Now Tenzo!" This time another voice says
"Mokuton: Mokusatsu Shibari no Jutsu (Wood Release: Smothering Binding Technique)" and soon Naruto found himself bound by branches, Naruto tried getting rid of them but he found himself suddenly drained of strength. He started trashing around to get out when he heard the last word he heard before looking conciousness
"Hokage-Shiki Jijun Jutsu — Kakuan Nitten Suishu (Fire Shadow-Style Sixty-Year-Old Technique — Enclosed Hermitage Entering Society with Bliss-Bringing Hands)" and sas multiple pillars Rising from the ground with the top carved to look like Foo dogs, he felt a hand on his back and then darkness.
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When Naruto hit the ground, two people appeared in the area. The first was a man with gravity defying grey hair, he wore a simple blue suit with a grey flak jacket, strapped up sandals and arm guards that went up to his elbows. While not on duty as an Anbu, he wore a similar outfit with segmented gauntlets and bandages over his calves. His Anbu mask resembled a dog's face with red and black markings around the eyes, sides, and mouth. The second, also male, had short brown hair, he wore the standard attire of the Anbu: a black, sleeveless jumper under a grey flack jacket with strapped-up shinobi sandals, arm-length gloves with guards over them. He carried a sword strapped to his back, and wore a mask that resembles a cat's face covered in green, and red intricate markings, and the Anbu tattoo on his left shoulder. Seeing the newcomers Itachi simply said the lie that they were told to say in the event that something went wrong with the mission.
"Inu-taicho, Tora-sempai, I am so glad to see you." he said while standing up and wiping the blood on his eyes. Inu turned towards Itachi and said
"What happened here?"
"We were doing our final round before letting you take the turn, when Shisui felt Miss Maya's chakra plumetting, we entered and found her with a Tanto in the back, I took it to examine it when Naruto-san entered and saw me, he went ape on us and as you can see the results are before." answered Itachi while showing them what happened, now that he had the time to calm down he realised what he was about to do, and he couldn't be more ashamed of himself. Inu simply nodded before ordering Naruto to be taken to the hospital and for Itachi to go debrief the Hokage. As they left they didn't realise that Itachi's flames didn't get put out by any of them.
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In a dark location stood three individual, all of them were elderly individuals.
"Was it really necessary Danzo?" asked Mitokado Homura, an old man with grey hair, a beard, glasses as well as a constant frown that he's always worn, even in his youth. He also has a strong jaw-line a facial structure he has retained even in his old age. As a member of the Konoha Council, he wears similar garbs to those that Hiruzen would when acting in his capacity as Hokage. The one named Danzo, a frail, old man, who would normally walk with a cane. He had black, shaggy hair, and his right eye was. Danzō has had an x-shaped scar on his chin ever since his youth. He wore a white shirt, with a black or dark grey robe over the top of it covering from his feet, to just over his right shoulder. The robe conceals his right arm which was bandaged, merely looked at the speaker and said
"Yes It was Homura, we allowed the woman to adopt the jinchuriki because she would give him a sense of belonging to the village and cement his loyalty but when she started filling his head with toughts of becoming a medic she became a liability…" as Homura was about to interrupt Danzo, the third elder said "Danzo is right Homura, the child is a jinchuriki, a weapon of war not a bloody medic. Hiruzen was a fool to not give it to Danzo for conditioning." The speaker was Koharu. In her youth, Koharu was a beautiful kunoichi with dark eyes. Her hair is pulled back in a twin bun locked by a traditional Japanese hair pin with two pearls dangling off the side. She also had fringes that covered her forehead protector. Her shinobi outfit consisted of a simple black outfit, a grey breastplate, arm guards, fishnet tights with a skirt over it, a pouch strapped to her back with bandages, and regular shinobi sandals. In her old age, she maintains her original hairstyle without the bangs. The pearls on her hair needle have also increased and tassels were added to the other end. Her earrings are also considerably longer. As a member of the Konoha Council, Koharu wears a simple long kimono, closed by an obi, a jacket, and a sash over it. Koharu has also taken to squinting, barely opening her eyes at any point in time. The woman looked at Naruto and then sniffer derisingly and said
"And now because of that old fool we lost one of our best shinobi and his eyes were destroyed by the jinchuriki." At that both the other towards men remembered Shisui's death but Danzo simply shrugged and said
"While Shisui's death was unfortunate, moreso because we lost his sharingan, we have confirmation that Tenzo's Mokuton can suppress bijuu chakra as it was possible with the Mokuton of our Shodaime (First) Hokage, we can take solace in that fact." At that both elders nodded and Danzo continued "And Shisui's sacrifice was necessary to protect the great tree of Konoha and maintain its power..." At that Danzo was interrupted by the voice of the last person in this cell.
"You bastards…" came a low growl from a chained Uzumaki Naruto, he was chained to the wall from his wrists and his ankles. He looked at the people in the room and glared at them with so much hatred that if they were anyone else they would have certainly flinched. Seeing that he had an active audience he continued "You want power... You want power so desperately? You desire the power so desperately? You have crushed... You have crushed my sole remaining light in my life... And you...you feel no shame at all?! I will never forgive you... I will never forgive you for this! Inhuman monsters, who have ruined my life, let my mother's blood taint your dreams! Let Konoha be cursed! Let all that you ever cared about be ruined! And when you fall into the pits of hell... remember the rage of Uzumaki Naruto!"
Seeing his curse, the elders simply left the cell, but in the back of their minds they could not help but wonder if the curse that Naruto cast upon them will be fullfilled.
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The seal that Minato designed, was to say the least a masterpiece but it had a certain flow, it's strength is based on the flow of chakra in the body of its host, with Naruto's chakra sealed the seal was at its weakest, but even then the bijuu wouldn't be able to escape its prison but that didn't stop the Kyuubi from trying. Seeing that the seal was weakened, the bijuu tried escaping in all manner which activated a safety measure in the seal that was an imprint of its maker with the power to remake the seal if it was ever broken, but seeing aw the seal wasn't broken the imprint had no job to do so all it did was dissipate. Normally that is what would happen but the Shiki Fuin didn't just change Naruto's appearance but also made his chakra more similar to Minato's, enough that the imprint, which was a Kage bunshin essentially was absorbed into Naruto's chakra and the imprint memories were absorbed Naruto.
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Minato entered Konoha's Academy with the dream of earning the villagers' respect and recognition by becoming Hokage. When Kushina Uzumaki moved to Konoha, she was placed in the same class as Minato. Minato was immediately drawn to her bright red hair, finding it beautiful. Minato was a natural prodigy as a ninja, the likes of which appears only once in a generation. When he was added to a genin team alongside Uchiha Fugaku and Hyuga Hiashi under the leadership of Jiraiya, Jiraiya took a special interest in Minato and took him on as his apprentice, teaching him many of his own signature abilities.
Years later, after they graduated and became ninja, Kushina was kidnapped by Kumogakure forces. Konoha mobilised its ninja to retrieve her, but only Minato noticed the strands of red hair Kushina left behind to mark their path. Minato, acting alone, rescued her from her captors. On their way back to Konoha, Minato confessed his admiration for her hair and her strength, causing Kushina – who had previously believed Minato "unreliable" and even "girly" to fall in love with him.
Minato and Kushina were a couple from the time that he rescued her, they eventually married. From observing a Tailed Beast Ball, Minato began a three year process of creating the Rasengan, the height of shape transformation. He would spend the rest of his life trying to combine it with his own nature.
After proving himself an accomplished and responsible ninja, Minato was placed in charge of his own team, consisting of Rin Nohara, Obito Uchiha, and Kakashi Hatake. Minato gave his team a bell test upon its formation in order to teach them the value of teamwork. Minato often held back less against the prodigious Kakashi than with Rin and Obito so they couldn't obtain the bells without teamwork. Unfortunately, Kakashi realised this, but only used Obito and Rin as a means to an end to obtain the bells. Nonetheless, he passed them because they accomplished the goal of the test by working as a team. Although he did encourage them to improve their teamwork afterwards, a message that Obito and Rin took to heart, but fell on deaf ears with Kakashi.
When Konoha became involved in the Third Shinobi World War, Minato's obligations became split between training his students and helping with the war effort. During a mission into Kusagakure to destroy the Kannabi Bridge, Minato transferred leadership of the mission to Kakashi – who had recently become a jōnin – while he headed to the front lines. He met up with the surviving and out-numbered Konoha ninja and single-handedly wiped out the opposing Iwagakure forces. When he rendezvoused with his team afterwards he found Kakashi and Rin and surrounded by Iwa-nin, Obito having already been lost. He rescued them, helped them complete their original mission once they recovered, and returned to Konoha with them to mourn Obito. Minato's competing obligations would later repeat the tragedy of Obito's death: while he was away on another mission, Rin was kidnapped by Kirigakure and died during Kakashi's attempt to retrieve her.
Minato encountered A of Kumogakure a number of times during the war. During their first meeting, Minato and A fought with their speed, with Minato proving the faster. He received orders to retreat before their competition could resolve, but he lingered to compliment A and his brother, B, a jinchūriki like Kushina; he encouraged A to take care of B and remember he was a person. A pursued Minato, so Minato moved against B, threatening to kill him if A didn't let him and his team go. Minato was confident he and A would someday meet as Kage.
All this and more were the memories that Naruto saw during his two day reprieve, and if he what he saw was accurate, then the next few months were going to both be beneficial to him and would suck.
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Danzo entered his office, a really spartan office with a desk, some chairs and a picture of konoha seen from the top of the Hokage monument. Anyway, when he entered he saw someone sitting on a chair waiting for him. The man had below-average stature, light skin, grey hair, gauntlet face with wrinkles and liver spots of old age. He wore the customary hat and haori with a red, full-length kimono that is tied using a white sash. The man was Danzo's 'rival' for the Hokage position and the current acting Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi.
"Has it been done?" asked Hiruzen to which Danzo merely nodded and answered
"Hai Hiruzen it has been done, though we had to lose Shisui in the end but Tenzo showed that his Mokuton is a viable alternative to the Sharingan." At that Hiruzen nodded and said
"A shame that Shisui died, and his sharingan was lost, I would have prefered if Itachi died but no matter both were going to die anyway, on another note the Uchiha clan is being more restless, but I can buy a few more years before protocole Dying Embers is made in place." at that Danzo simply nodded before asking another question on his mind
"What of the jinchuriki?" Hiruzen simply looked at Danzo and said
"The jinchuriki will be handled as well discussed when I issued the mission, just have the decoy ready." At that Hiruzen left the office
Time skip: 10 months
Ten months, 300 days, 7200 hours, 432000 minutes, 25920005 secondes, that is how long Naruto has been in this dungeon, he was beaten, sleep deprived, given little to no food or drink, his chakra was sealed, in fact if it wasn't for the kyubi he would have died. But all of this was of no consequence since he was pretty sure tody is his last day here, he was apparently malleable enough for a Yamanaka to do their thing on him to make him forget his mother.
Speaking of the Yamanaka, the one brought to mind rape him was none other that the acting clan head Yamanaka Inoichi.
Inoichi had long ash blond hair reaching into his back, which he wore spiky on top and ending in a long ponytail, blue-green eyes and strong facial features, which included a well defined jaw line. In Part I, Inoichi was seen wearing the standard flak jacket over a black outfit, complete with hand-guards, forehead protector and a sleeveless red haori.
Inoichi looked at his current assignement and sighed, the kid looked barely able to keep himself awake let alone be able to fight back, he felt pity for the last and disgust with himself at what he was going to do to the boy, even more knowing that what he was doing could have ramifications on the child's state of mind but orders were orders. He put his hand on Naruto's forehead and found himself in a leaky sewer, The jinchuriki's mindscape, he walked with the force of habit until he found a large floating orb and touched it connecting himself to the Uzumaki's memories, finding what he needed, he removed Maya's memories and left. As soon as he left, the sewer mindscape cracked before shattering and in its place appeared Naruto standing in a beautiful forest with a giant mountain on the horizon. He smiled and said
"Jesus, Konoha's shinobi sure are easy to trick."
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To be continued.